The Holiday.

Fell asleep towards the end, so no idea what went on. Will have to re-watch bits. Not sure if I’m that bothered though.

I think the daughter might be pregnant by the boy? But don't tell me if you know!

Josieann that thought crossed my mind also but I have no idea. Jake is a nasty piece of work.

I watched this but actually thought how glamorous they all looked,,I look a right tip on holiday.
When I finished watching this I was so tense it was all so horrible with all the actors not liking each other but I will carry on watching it to see how it turns out.
A bit of humour wouldn't have gone amiss.

I have watched two episodes and don’t care about any of the characters except the little boy. I don’t think I will bother to watch the rest as I am finally watching Breaking Bad and there are five series.

My er, brain, struggled to cope with so many characters all at once as I can barely recall their names or who is married to who. Sean looks like a slightly disreputable type and his wife over-anxious. None of them seem to be having fun (apart from when the women got stupidly drunk) and it's meant to be a holiday - but I expect that's the point.

I'm not sure that any of the characters are particularly likeable (apart from the younger lad) and if you were reading the book why would you turn the page if you don't like them or care what happens to them?

Thus far, the men (apart from the dishy but scruffy Sean) just look anonymous and grey. Jake is worse than the average moody teenager and I feel that someone is holding a nasty secret. I'm sure there are red herrings but I'll stick with it though to see what happens next.

What a bunch of unlikable people. JH doing her usual role with occasional long stares, sad face, soulfull stare. If they cut them out the programme would be half the length. Am I mistaken or has Sean shagged (sorry) all of them, or is there one he hasn't had and is he trying to complete the set?.

Maybe Sean isn't having an affair with anyone? I think he is communicating with Coral Girl about his daughter's problem (maybe raped by Jake?), but they can't tell the mum because she is a police woman. That's why the messages need to be deleted.

It's a holiday.
Why are they all spending so much time on their phones?

the dishy but scruffy Sean

Don’t think he’s at all dishy, his hair is all shaggy and lank, and
he just looks a heap.
Adrian McCardle is better, at least he has a good head of clean hair!

I thought perhaps Sean is having an affair but not with one of the ladies. Couldn’t be Jake could it? All that running around in the smoke was a bit ridiculous and then sending little Daniel back on his own was crazy. We shall know all in the final episode tomorrow.

It’s ridiculous, hardly any meaningful dialogue, just a string of disjointed, miserable exchanges between unlikeable people that lead nowhere. The little girl seems to be genuinely having fun though.

The little boy was right when he told Odette that the parents wouldn't miss them if they went off into the woods. The parents are all wrapped up in their own silly shenanigans.

'Dishy but scruffy' is half right. Definitely scruffy but not the slightest bit dishy. I'm one episode behind, so have just been wondering this evening why the parents care so little about their young son they allow him to run around on cliff edges unsupervised (a delinquent teenager doesn't count as supervision). My worst nightmare would be my child falling off a cliff!

Luckily I haven’t wasted too much time on it. Fast-forwarding through the long, anguished close-ups, the lingering gazes into the middle distance & the thrashing around in a forest fire without a singed dress or a soot-blackened face to be seen, I managed to cut tonight’s episode down to about 10 minutes.

I didn’t even watch tonight, saw the first two episodes and that was quite enough for me.
Have been enjoying Downton instead.

You could well be right Tanith about it being Jake.

It really is the usual tosh, on a par with Jill Halfpenny’s last drama, ‘The Drowning’, (this one could be entitled ‘Wildfire’). Also most of Sheridan Smith’s latest offerings, oh, and not forgetting that one a while back with Anna Maxwell Martin and Rachael Stirling, as very unlikely sisters, and a missing, subsequently dead child. And another one set in Ireland about a missing author and her husband and his girlfriend.

They all seem to be set over 4 nights, start off ok but rapidly dissolve into the realms of fantasy and nonsense.

Their parenting skills leave a lot to be desired- one does not allow children as young as Daniel and Odette to go off on their own for hours on end in a foreign country.

Did Jake realise he set off the fire? There was no sign of the fire brigade unless I blinked?

Charleygirl5

Their parenting skills leave a lot to be desired- one does not allow children as young as Daniel and Odette to go off on their own for hours on end in a foreign country.

Did Jake realise he set off the fire? There was no sign of the fire brigade unless I blinked?

Indeed. They already lost Odette once on the beach, so you'd think they would be extra careful.

We just watched the third one and so now have to watch the last one but they are all such an unlikeable bunch. The only two I care about are the youngest two. I said to hubs I’ll be so glad when it’s finished but really fancy a holiday to Malta but definitely not with friends.

I agree Calendargirl. I think, round about the beginning of Covid restrictions, Channel 5 & ITV bought a job-lot of third-rate dramas and we’ve been disappointed by one after another of them ever since. No plot, no dialogue, mediocre acting and an awful lot of padding.

The characters are not only unlikeable but despite a university education seem unable to have a sensible conversation - and although they're on holiday are constantly distracted by their mobile phones or whatever. Who'd go on holiday with this lot? Only a masochist.

Delila

It’s ridiculous, hardly any meaningful dialogue, just a string of disjointed, miserable exchanges between unlikeable people that lead nowhere. The little girl seems to be genuinely having fun though.

An excellent summary ?

Oh, and I forgot another rubbish one, set in Australia, where the husband was having an affair with the girl taken on as an au pair. They had torrid sex in the basement, and it somehow ended with the au pair murdering the husband and ending up in jail.

Or maybe the wife murdered him and set the au pair up? I really can’t remember.

I'm watching and having read the book having read other books by the same author, very disappointed in the tv version of The Holiday. Confusing as it cannot in the allocated time it has to view show how the characters came to know each other that they should want to holiday together..